The Press: 100 for Reuters

With the release of 100 homing pigeons from its London headquarters and
a banquet for more than 1,000 notables, Reuters' news service last week
celebrated its 100th anniversary. Since Founder Paul Julius Reuter
started the service by using pigeons to carry financial news on the
continent, Reuters has grown to be the world's second largest news
service (biggest: Associated Press), with more than 3,200 newspaper
clients and 2,000 staffers and stringers around the world.

In the early days of Reuters, the foreign correspondence of most
newspapers consisted of letters sent by ship, so Reuters had no
competition in Britain when it set...